CVE-2024-40588 is a medium-severity relative path traversal vulnerability (CWE-23) affecting multiple Fortinet products, including FortiCamera, FortiMail, FortiNDR, FortiRecorder, and FortiVoice across various versions. A highly privileged attacker can exploit this flaw by sending crafted CLI requests to read arbitrary files from the underlying filesystem. The CVSS score of 4.4 indicates a local attack vector with low attack complexity, requiring high privileges, and resulting in high confidentiality impact without affecting integrity or availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 2.0.0, <= 2.1.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:forticamera_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 6.4.0, < 7.4.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:fortimail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 7.6.0, < 7.6.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:fortimail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 7.0.0, < 7.4.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:fortindr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 7.6.0, < 7.6.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:fortindr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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